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The Osceola times., 1887-01-22
Introduction Of n sickening Habit.

A Chicago railroad man and Chicago
reporter both say that it is becoming fash
ionable for young men Of that city TO kiss
each other vigorously when they part Tor
any length of time and when they meet
again The railroad man says 1t makes
him sick TO see the fools.
The Osceola times., 1887-01-22

THE COMBINATION OF ISaREprrNrs used
in making BRowS's BRONCHIAL TRocHEs
is such as TO give the best possible effect
with safety. They are the best remsdy in
use for Coughs, Colds, aud Throat Dis
eases, Sold only In boxes Price % cts.
The Osceola times., 1887-01-22

DAVID ScorT, champion Australian crick.
eter, says st. Jacobs OIL acts like magic.
Hospitals and curative institutions sue
cessfully use Red Star Cough Cure No
opiates. Costs twenty-five cents bottle.
The Osceola times., 1887-01-22
NEVER speak to yourself when sny one is
uear.-1h yndge.

LIFE Is buriensome, alike TO the sufferer
and all around him, whiled edyspepsia and ITS
attending evils holds sway: Complaints OF
this nature can be speedily cured by TAX
ing Prickly Ash Bitters regularly. Thou
sands once thus afflicted now bear cheerful
testimony as 10 its merits.
The Osceola times., 1887-01-22

Is failing to provide the proper means TO
expel from the system those disease germs
which cause scrofula, indigestion, debility,
rheumatism, and sick headache. Tho only
reliable means is DIR. Harter's Iron Tonic.
The Osceola times., 1887-01-22

A Boston paper complains that Tenny-
sons poem is obscure. The real trouble is
that Boston is giving to much time to the
development of its muscle and not enough
TO its intellect
The Osceola times., 1887-01-22

THE trouble with a buzz-saw Is that II
never has false teeth.
The Osceola times., 1887-01-22

III n cough dsturbs your sleep, TAX.
Piso's Cure for Consumption and rest well
The Osceola times., 1887-01-22
An ExpensIve Delay.

THE call to arms-"John, take the baby"
-Ioledo Blade
The Osceola times., 1887-01-22

THE me-stretch-Trying TO mako both
ends meet
The Osceola times., 1887-01-22

NEVER attempt to handle snow-shovel
without gloves.
The Osceola times., 1887-01-22

IMPRESSIONS Of America-Footprints N
the snow.-Ner HdVen Nens.
The Osceola times., 1887-01-22

"A New York critic distinguished
himself one night recently by witness
ing a comic opera and then writing up
an elaborate criticism vn Wagnerian
production. The usher had given him
the wrong score. y. 1fits,ss.
The Osceola times., 1887-01-22

HALE's Honey Of Horehound and Tar re-
lieves whooping cough.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Osceola times., 1887-01-22
Rrownss I.ittIo .Jolra.

WAL Of the stage carpenter-all work
snd no play.-Tezds SUtiHgs
The Osceola times., 1887-01-22

UPSIDE down-Feather bed.-N y Inds
pendent.
The Osceola times., 1887-01-22

RAILROAD bralxemen should emigrate to
Switzerland. st Paul Herald
The Osceola times., 1887-01-22

Johnston, Boussingault, Liebig, Vile
or any of the great masters of the
science of agricultural chemistry find
authority and support for the theory that
the soil is sort of perpetual motion
machine, "a well with hinexhaustible fount,
widows cruise of oil'' that wasteth
notp suppose you will say, "I will
keep the clover at work pumping up
from below" Yes, but what will you
do when your soil shall become "clo-
ver-sickn even the deep-reach-
ing feeders of clover no longer find
means of support Well, you might
squeeze the jug as long as there is a
drop of cider in it, milk the COW as long
as she yields spoonful of milk. then
buy another farm and begin the en-
bezzlementp plan of appropriation over
again. Perhaps it might be more
profitable.
This is not the point at issue. The
truth for which we are now eagerly and
earnestly searching is-if we subtract,
is the remainder less than the amount
before subtractionp Years and years
ago was taught to give an affirmative
answer to this question, but If of late
some new school in mathematics has
reversed the old rule, shall be glad TO
see the new methods demonstrated. 1
shall be ready to accept the new dogma
when explained in the light of science,
or proven by systematic course of ex-
periments conducted with the same care
and scientific precision as those of
Lawes and Gilbert. From what light
low have, am free to admit that am
kept. = ! really do not helieve it .
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-28

sadder sight than that Of new
mich COW. torn away from home and
friends and kindred dear, descend
ing steep mountain road at rap
i'd rate and striving in her poor weak
manner TO keep oa- Of the way of 3
small jackson Democrats wagon
loaded with big hogshead full Of
tobacco. 1t seems 10 me SO totally
foreign to the nature Of the cow to
entec into the tobacco traffic. q line
of business for which she caa have
no sympathy and in which she Ger
tainly can feel very tile interest.
A great many people come here
from various parts of the world, for
the climate. When they have re-
mained for one winter. however they
decide to leave it wLere it ls.
1t is said that the climate here, is
very much like that Of Turin. But
l did not intend to 60 to Turin even
before | Lelrd about that.
Please send my paper to the same
address, and if some enc who knows
good remedy for chilblains will
contribute it to the Sabbath Globe
| shall watch for it with great inter-
est. Yours as here "a,
BILL NYE.
P.S. Il should have said in relative
to the COW of this State that if the
owners wOuld work their butter more
and theis cows less uey wos a con-
fer greit boon on the consumer OF
bo.h.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-28
How TO Sweep.

Sweep With a long. steady stroke,
taking care to form nablt Of ais
in the broom at the end Of the
stroke la such a way as to preveut
dust raising. Watch some women
sweep as if they were digging;
small cloud Of d ist Will follow the
enl of III. hreOra every time it is
raised. BE careful to 20 into every
cerner with the end Of your b DOM.
and to hrush all dust from between
carpet or mating and sklrtny
beard, as here is where moths love
20 harbor. Sreep from all sides Of
the room to tie center. This sweep
ing to the center instead Of he door
may strike sOme rsadeIs as an in
novation. but If they will consider a
moment they will see tbat there is
80 reason whatever for dragging the
dust all over the room. Sweeping
toward the center of sixteen feet
sqAre room, you only sweep tbe dust
eight feet ea,h way.instead Of cary
ing it before the broom the whole
sixteen feet. Short quick sire ckes OF
the broom are apt to scatter the
dust, especially when TIE stroke eads
with an upward jerk, as | have otter
seen it do when the broom is in the
hands of vigorous girls who imagn'
they are getting over the ground
much more rapidly by hurried move
ments than they would if they took
greater pains. But hurry is no
speed some women are quick ant
thorough b, others slow and thorough
hut tn. one always hurrying is rare
ly either quick or thorough; sh
makes work all the time she is doin
it.-Hartford Sunday Globe.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-28
An optical Delusion.

The story of the twins is the la'
est. A father Of twins Was natura
iy very proud of them. and whe
they came to prssentablc age /
insisted on friend calling to 81
them. The friend agreed, and uame
the day. The twins were dres
ed in their best, put side by sid
in an armchair, and awaited iaspo|
tion.
Now the friend had benn lunc
ing very heavily, and drinking ve|
freely, AMI. consequently, his vi
ION vas not as perfect as it ought
have been. However, he went
admire the twins, and was usher
INTO the room where ther we
sThere,' exclaimed the proud faith
did you ever see anything to mat
that9' The visitor, conscious of I
possibility of An optical delusit
quietly reptile |, Quite right; III
splendid child.'--Me WhitehaU
viear.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-28
A Fable About a BOY.

A tit of a boy observed his sister
curling her hair around hot poker
and when he saw her golden ringlets
curl up like Georgia pine shavings,
what he considered an over bright
idea struck him.
The folks next door say their
pug is better tia our bull dog, be-
cause its-tail curls over its back So
tight. l am just going to curl the
bull dogs tail now. and run him up
and down in front of their house
and then maybe they went feel 50
big.'
So he brought the dog in. and
heated the poker until it was almost
red in order to get a good curl.
Grasping the dogs tail, he quickly
wound it around the poker. bat it
was not wound around The poker
half so quick as the dog was wound
around the bey. He picked him up
BY the small Of HE back, and shook
him very near into the ague. The
boy was then Obliged to lie in bed
until his father couli afford to get
him new suit Of cloths, which was
S month later.
The moral of this little fable
teaches us two things: first, that
bright. srigina al ideas are dangerous
in the hands of people who dent
know how to use them, and second
that when We experiment with a bull
dog we should muzzle him before
beginning.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-28

To all It may concern:

took my departure fromSco.lapd
Neck. n. c.. jSst one year ago. and
after a few days travel | found my
self far away treadlng the soil where
the orange blossoms blow.
l have been requested several
times, to write something ofFlorida,
and the city in which I've, and this
is the result. If the editor of the
DEMOCRAT will kindly allow me
space in its worthy columns, will
endeavor to tell something of Or
lando, and It's surroundings Or
lando has very appropriately been
termed the phenomenal City."Like
unto the fabulous cities of the Ar
abian NigAts,it seems to have sprung
frem the earth, and it is not difficult
to believe in the patent magic of
genii; and to attrib ute the unusual
growth and activity everywhere ae>
parent to the influence of some
mystic enchantment. Less than
five years ago 3 handful of houses
erected in the Wild deselation Of the
piney woods comprised the then
existing town. mere hamlet of un-
pretentious cabins. Scarcely q
hope was entertained, In those days
for the future of this secluded child
of the wilderness, and it would have
been bold nan indeed to venture
to predict the brilliant fortunes hid
den away in the approaching period
of the next few years. But the star
of it's destiny was in the ascendant !;
and out Of the cracker settlement
was soon to develop typical Amer
lean town, full of life. energy and
business. Attracted by the great
beauty and exceeding kealthfulness
of the adjacent country snd the
superior quality of the soil, as in
dicated by the scores of magnificent
orange groves scattered throughout
the country, few far sighted busi-
ness men cast their fortunes here
aud with unprecedented energy they
devoted their time, labor ard capital
to development and to the cause OF
Orlando. These pioneer fathers,
prominent among whom we note
Maj. r. M. Marks. Mess.J III Living
ston & Co.. Mess. Sinclair and Mills
early wrought many lasting I'm
provements. Through their con.
slant and untiring efforts. tide OF
8 travel soon found it's way into the
country, and to Orlando as the cen.
tral point. A golden harvest ot
Northern capital poured in from
every side, and property advanced
il value and elegant residences were
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-28

should speak out in uamistakabls
terms for that general enlightenment
of the masses, without which, even
the church itself becomes s'dark
cave of superstition" Every candid
ate for place of public trust, from
the President down to district const-
able, should be forced to face the
people, and Tell them what he
knows Of education.
1t will be very convenient indeed,
fifteen or twenty years hence for the
young lawyers and ambitious young
men of the State to pull from their
pockets "a ringing speech" In behalf
of the boys who pass in the ballots
which will decids their political
fate. So. if the great men of the State
stand still and ponder over uncer-
talnties, and mighty doctors have
nothing to saw of their own, and the
.sgrest stars Of fashion, have no use
fer themes so common place, as 1.-THE
education of the ignerant masses, y
then let every earnest worker in this
glorious cause, come to the front,
and undaunted, III season and out of
season, plead fer the grand consum
mation-the awakening Of the masses
Now my friends ponder we'll what !
have said.
Think what may not the foremost
men-those who are competent to
the task with their thrilling elo-
quence may, what cannot those noble
women. tefore whose social powers
we all doff our hats, achieve, if once
moved by the proper impulses, as
workers in this grand revival fol
enlisting the whole people in the
supreme cause of educating and en-
Tightening our fellow creatures
Surely it would seem needless, to
invite SO susceptible people, to
come forward and labor for those
whom We hold dearer than anything
on earth. We want North Carolins
only as God has made it, and as the
providential schooling Of the past
has left it, and only contend that itt
people shall give themselves. just
as they are. to this glorious crusade
against ignorance and to the leva
ton of the masses i'll the scale Of ht
ing, knowing that ignorance leads te
vice, and vice leads to ruin.
T. u. G..
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-28

We have no great confidence IN
improvement of morals and sup
precision OF crime as long as three
evils exist: the one man pardoEing
power; the resent system of jury
trials as juries ere composed; end
the sympathy for crime and crimi-
nails that prevails TO greater or less
extent in every community Let
villain slay bis fellow, man--.et the
murder be of the most fiandi,h, dew
llish Kind. and then allow wear or
two to eiaI Sc and a strong pubs
tic sympathy for the inca.nate devil
is created inevitably and to punish
him is to punish martyr. This is
PERHAPS natural. We all know how
softening. how al!eviatlng IS time.
The mother who briesu her ton ler>
est, best loved offspring can look
without hea laceratinn upon the
dear dead ones little shoes and
stockings and toys two or three
years afler death, whereas thei, very
sight tore the heart striaes IN the
early days of bereavement. Punish
crime when it is fresh if you would
prevent undue s, mpathv for vii
lains and shat out sentme ntal gush
ia the way of petitions. Let justice
be done though the heavens fall.
Let the laws be execute faithfully,
firmly, Nilmin ton Str.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-28
WEALTHY NEGROES.
COlOred Citizens Worth frOl
Half a Million Down.

John w. Cromwell, a negro jour
nalist in Ph ladelptia says he At
lanta Constitution has compiled en-
exhibit of the the business cOndlt On
Of his race in America.
The Carolnas take the lea in
the number of wel-to do negroes.
North Carolina Las twenty vino are
worth from $4,000 to $4,000 each.
In South Carolina the negroes own
$40, ,OO0 600 worth Of property. In
Charleston fourteen men represent
$29O,OO0. Thomas R. Smalls is
worth $,8 1000, Charlrs C. Leslie is
worth $4,000. The family Of Noi>
settes, truck farmers, are worth $50,
900. In the city savings bank the
negroes have $124.936.35 on deposit.
One man has over $4,000. He re-
Gently bought $1,000 plaotasion
and paid $1,000 in cash.
In Philadelphia John Mckee is
worth half a million. He owns 400
houses. Several are worth $loo.ooo
each.
The negroes of New York own
from five to six million dollars worth
of real es tate. ?. A.W hite. whole
sale druggist, is worth aquarter of a
million, ard has an annual busines
OF 100000 Catherine Black is
worth $15o,ooo.
10 New Jersey the negroes own
So, 2,ooo 900 orth of real estate. Bal
timore has NOR negro home-owners
than any other large c ty. Nineteen
men are worth a total of $S 10000.
John Thorn as the wealthiest,is worth
about $15o,ooo. Less than one
hundred negroe. in Washington are
worth a total OF ST 900 900.
III L'utSldA1 CAC hSStoSS P"S e~N
es on $l5,ooo.ooo in New Orleans
and $50. 900 900 IN the State. Ionic
Lafon, French quadroon, is worth
$1,OOo,OO0. The Mercer Bros. cloth
i iers. carry stock of $soO,oOo. Mis-
,ouri has twenty seven negroes worth
81, 900, 900, in amounts ranging from
500 900 to $25,00O.
The richest colored woman in the
South, Amanda Euhanks. m ade sc
by the will Of her white father. il
worth 100000, and lives near Au'
gusta, Ga. Chicago. the home o
eighteen Thousand colored people
has three firms in business whos'
proprietors represent $4,000 each
one $15, 900. s.d nine $4,000. Th'
Eastlake Furniture Company il
worth $4,000. A. J. Scott has $35
600 invested in the livery business
and is worth 500 900, including
well>stocked farm in Mirhigan. Mrs
john Jsnes and Richard Grant ar
worth $4,000 each. A. G. Whi-s q
ST. LOUIS, formerly purveyor of tn
Anchor Line Of cleaners after hnaI
cial revcrses, has, since the age o
As. retrieved bis fortunes and accu
mulated $4,000. Mrs. NJ. Carper
ter. a Saa Fran cisco colored woman
had bank account of $4,000. an
Mr.. Mary Peasants has an incom
from eight houses in San Francisco
. ranch near San Mateo, and 500
O0Oin government bonds. In Mary
,ille, CAL, twelve individuals are th
owners Of ranches valued In the q
gregate from. $3.50. 900 to $l80.O0'
One ofthem. Mrs. Peggy Bredr'
Z
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-28
A HUNTERS STRANGE
LUCK.

A gentleman residing near the
Napa and Sonoma county lines, and
whose name we withhold by request,
tells the following story of q re-
markable shot: He was out in the
mountains in quest Of the festive
buck, Monday, and had experienced
poer luck until about noon, when
he spied = tall, magnificent deer
raising his proud head over a rock
pile at distance Of about 200 yards
from his. The branches of young
madrOna tree formed natural
bronze-red and green frame above
the ANIMALS head. He hesitated
for some time in doubt Of CHANGING
shot at that distance the position
of the target being so unt'avorasls.
He decided to risk it, however. and
blazed away. When tue little wreath
of smo ke had cleared away he found
that the proudly crested head had
disappeared. He made his way
rapidly as possible to the spet and
found his game awaiting him. After
perforaing the customary surgical
operation upon the deer's throat
with his hunting knife, he com
menced to look for the deathwound
What appeared to be bullet hole
| was found in the centre Of tt g dc er'i
forehead.
| In passing lis hand carelestlJ
over the wound he detected a rough
sharp prOturbance. Thinking it wa
a piece of the shattered frontal bon,
he tried to withdraw 1t. He wa
| unable to move it at the first at
tempt, and com nenced tugglng il
earnest. He finally succeeded. bu
to his surprise, it was not . piece y
the skull. 1t was splinter of mad
rona wood, four inches II length b.
an inch and half Or quarter Of n
inch thick, gradually narrowing t.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-28

peint at one end. Upon a careful
examination he found that his bul.
let had NOT touched the animal, but
had struck one of the limbs Of the
madrona tree about six inches aho, e
his head, chepping out the splinter
that had killed The deer. The splin-
ter withdrawn from the ANIMALS g
skull was fitted to the limb above
and the resalt proved beyond a
doubt that the deer Was killed by
the splinter uf wood.-Senomsa (CaD
Democrat.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-28
BILL nYE
He Is Studying Zoology in
North Carolina MOuntai ins.

There is no place In the ULited
States, so far as 1 know, where the
COW is more versatile or anbidex-
trous, if may be allowed the use Of
a term that is far above ms station
IN life. than here in the Mountains of
North Carolina, where the obese
'possum and the anonymous distiller
have their LOmes.
The life Of North Carolina COW
is indeed fraught with various chan
ses and saturated with a Zeal hich
is praiseworthy in the extreme.
From the sunny days whe-. she
gambols through the beautiful val
leys, inserting nsr black, retrousse
and perspiration dotted nose into
the blue grass from ear to ear. urtll
at life's close when every part and
portiOa of her overworked system is
turned into food, lsiment or over
coat buttons, tie life of the Tar heel
COW is one of intense anxiety.
Jackasees in the South are of two
kinds viz: Male and Female. Much
as h as teen said Of the Jackass pro
and con, do not remember ever to
have seen the above in print before,
and vet 1T is as tri:e as it is incon>
trovertible. In the Rocky Noun
tains We call this animal the burrO.
There he packs bacon. four and salt
to the miners.
The miners at the meat and flour
and with the salt they are enabled
to succe ssfully salt the mines.
The hurre has a low cOntraltc
voic. whic ought to have some ma
chine oil on It. Tie voice Of this
animal is not unpleasant if he would
pull some of the pathos out of it and
make it more joyous.
| H re the jacka>s at times become.
CO. Orker with tie cow in hau Ing
| tobacco ard other necessities If life
into tOwr, but he goes no furoher II
the matter OF assistance. He com
peIs her to tread the cheese pres.
alone and coz tr;but,s nothing what
ever in the way of assistance for th'
huttrr industry.
The North Csrslina cow is FIRE
quently seen here driven double O.
SINGLE by means o. a snail rope a.
tached to a tall, emaciated gentl
man, who - generally clothed witt
the divine right of suffrage to whicl
be aads small pair Of ear bobs dur
ing the holidays.
4 The co. is attached to each shrf
~ q small singIetree or swingle,ree
by means of . broad strap harm g.
She also wears breeching in whicl
respect she frequently has the advar
| tage Of her escort.
4 think 1 have never witnessed